Why Video Streaming Will Shift Back from TCP to UDP in 15 Years

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Tracing the history from Flash/H.264 and HLS to today, the talk explains why large-scale video delivery moved to TCP-based protocols (RTMP, HLS, DASH) and now is shifting back toward UDP. It discusses the technical problems with TCP for streaming and describes approaches using UDP-based transport to improve live and large-scale video delivery.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:58TCP problems for video streaming
3. 10:16Head-of-line blocking and back pressure
4. 15:12New streaming requirements
5. 18:07UDP advantages for video
6. 23:47UDP adoption challenges
7. 28:40WebTransport and WebCodecs future
8. 33:17Q&A

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